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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26173
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1885
- Author
- Dent, Clinton
- Publisher
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Call Number
- 01.2 D43a
- Author
- Dent, Clinton
- Publisher
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Published Date
- 1885
- Physical Description
- 327 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 D43a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Group of Seven : art for a nation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25678
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Hill, Charles C.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
- Call Number
- 06.1 H55t
- Author
- Hill, Charles C.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 374 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Group of Seven
- History-Canada
- Artists
- ISBN
- 077106716X
- Accession Number
- 2022.27
- Call Number
- 06.1 H55t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1886
- Author
- Michelet, Jules
- Publisher
- London : L. Nelson and Sons
- Call Number
- 01.2 M58t
- Author
- Michelet, Jules
- Publisher
- London : L. Nelson and Sons
- Published Date
- 1886
- Physical Description
- 260 pages
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Europe
- Alps
- Mountaineering
- Glaciers
- Nature
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 M58t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mushrooms of Western Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26228
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Author
- Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Call Number
- 04.1 Sch1m 1991
- 04.1 Sch1m 2021
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Contents
- Introduction -- Illustrated key to fruiting bodies -- Classification overview -- Keys to colour illustrations -- Colour illustrations -- Species descriptions.
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0919433472
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04.1 Sch1m 1991
- 04.1 Sch1m 2021
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- Archives Library
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The Norton book of nature writing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26258
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton
- Call Number
- 05.5 F49t
- Responsibility
- Edited by Robert Finch and John Elder.
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 921 pages ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- A comprehensive collection of the many voices of nature writing which have flourished in England and America over the last two hundred years. Includes 125 selections by 94 writers.
- Contents
- From "The natural history and antiquities of Selborne" / Gilbert White -- From "Letters from an American farmer"; from "Sketches of eighteenth century America" / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- From "Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida" / William Bartram -- From "American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States" / Alexander Wilson -- From "The journal of a naturalist" / John Leonard Knapp -- From "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" / Dorothy Wordsworth -- From "Anima Poetae" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles" / Charles Waterton. From "A tour on the prairies" / Washington Irving -- From "Ornithological biography" / John James Audubon -- From "The natural world"; from "The natural history prose writings of John Clare" / John Clare -- From "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians" / George Catlin -- From "Nature"; from "The journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From "Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"; from "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"; from "The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex:"/ Charles Darwin -- From "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers"; From "Walden : or, life in the woods"; "Walking"; from "The Maine woods"; from "Journals" / Henry David Thoreau. From "Glaucus; or, the wonders of the shore" / Charles Kingsley -- From "Moby-Dick; or, the whale" / Herman Melville -- From "Modern painters" / John Ruskin -- From "Specimen days and collect" / Walt Whitman -- From "The life of the grasshopper" / Jean Henri Fabre -- From "The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise" / Alfred Russel Wallace -- From "Exploration of the Colorado River of the west and its tributaries" / John Wesley Powell -- From "Life on the Mississippi" / Samuel Clemens -- "In Mammoth Cave"; "The gospel of nature" / John Burroughs -- "A wind-storm in the forests"; "The water-ouzel" / John Muir -- "My friend the pig"; from "Idle days in Patagonia"; from "Birds and man"; from "Afoot in England"; from "A traveller in little things" / W.H. Hudson. From "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" / Clarence King -- From "The American scene" / Henry James -- From "Notebooks and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins" / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Out of doors in February"; "Absence of design in nature" / Richard Jefferies -- From "The land of little rain" / Mary Austin -- From "The south country" / Edward Thomas -- From "N by E" / Rockwell Kent -- "The death of the moth" / Virginia Woolf -- From "Out of Africa" / Isak Dinesen -- "Flowery Tuscany" / D.H. Lawrence -- From "The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod" / Henry Beston -- From "A Sand County almanac" / Aldo Leopold -- "Two lives" / Gustav Eckstein -- "Love in the desert"; "The colloid and the crystal" / Joseph Wood Krutch -- From "An almanac for moderns" / Donald Culross Peattie -- "Northern lights" / Sigurd Olson -- "The lost woods"; "The Selborne Nightingale" / Edwin Way Teale. "A slight sound at evening" / E.B. White -- "The ancient people and the newly come" / Meridel LeSueur -- From "The wooing of earth" / Rene Dubos -- From "A river runs through it" / Norman Maclean -- From "The grapes of wrath"; from "The log from the Sea of Cortez" / John Steinbeck -- "Some thoughts on the common toad" / George Orwell -- From "The heart of the hunter" / Laurens Van Der Post -- "The snakes are about" / T.H. White -- From "The edge of the sea" / Rachel Carson -- "The judgment of the birds"; "The star thrower" / Loren Eiseley -- From "The windward road" / Archie Carr -- "Glen Canyon Submersus"; "Coda : wilderness letter" / Wallace Stegner -- From "A land" / Jacquetta Hawkes -- "Antaeus in Manhattan"; "Death in the open"; "The world's biggest membrane"; "The Tucson Zoo" / Lewis Thomas. From "Ring of bright water" / Gavin Maxwell -- From "The run"; from "In defense of nature" / John Hay -- "Rain and rhinoceros" / Thomas Merton -- "From "Goodbye to a river" / John Graves -- From "Beautiful swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay" / William Warner -- From "Never cry wolf"; from "People of the deer" / Farley Mowat -- "Moments and journey" / John Haines -- From "The mysterious lands" / Ann Haymond Zwinger -- From "The Peregrine" / J.A. Baker -- From "The tree" / John Fowles -- From "The secret islands" / Franklin Russell -- From "Desert solitaire"' "The great American desert" / Edward Abbey -- From "The tree where man was born"; from "The wind birds" / Peter Matthiessen -- "Skin" / Richard Selzer -- "A very warm mountain" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- From "Biophilia" / Edward O. Wilson. From "Coming into the country"; "Under the snow" / John McPhee -- From "The hunt" / John G. Mitchell -- "Hailing the elusory mountain lion"; "Thoughts on returning to the city after five months on a mountain where the wolves howled" / Edward Hoagland -- "Spring rain"; "Eclipse" / John Updike -- "An entrance to the woods" / Wendell Berry -- From "The way to Rainy Mountain" / N. Scott Momaday -- From "A country year" / Sue Hubbell -- "The silence" / Chet Raymo -- "The gifts" / Richard K. Nelson -- "What the stones said" / Robert Finch -- "Dreaming elands" / Peter Steinhart -- From "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"; "Total eclipse" / Annie Dillard -- From "Arctic dreams"; "The raven" / Barry Lopez -- From "The Klamath Knot" / David Rains Wallace -- From "The solace of open spaces" / Gretel Ehrlich -- From "Wintergreen : listening to the land's heart" / Robert Michael Pyle -- "Animal rights and beyond" / David Quammen. "Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From "Adam's task : calling animals by name" / Vicki Hearne -- From "The desert smells like rain : a naturalist in Papago Indian country" / Gary Paul Nabhan -- "In the country of grasses" / Terry Tempest Williams.
- ISBN
- 0393027996
- Accession Number
- 2020.21
- Call Number
- 05.5 F49t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Rocky Mountain nature guide
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1999
- Author
- Bezener, Andy and Kershaw, Linda
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publisher
- Call Number
- 04 B45r
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Lone Pine Publisher
- Published Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- 191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- Includes 371 animals and plants from New Mexico to British Columbia.
- Contents
- Mammals -- Birds -- Amphibians & reptiles -- Fish -- Invertebrates -- Trees -- Shrubs -- Herbs.
- ISBN
- 1551051788
- Accession Number
- 2021.20
- Call Number
- 04 B45r
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- Archives Library
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Upon the origin of alpine and Italian lakes ; and upon glacial erosion
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26171
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1889
- Publisher
- New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
- Call Number
- 03.4 R14u
- Responsibility
- A. C. Ramsay, John Ball, Roderick I. Murchinson, B. Studer, A. Favre, Edward Whymper, and J. W. Spencer.
- Publisher
- New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
- Published Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- 148 pages
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Italy
- Europe
- Alps
- glaciology
- Glaciers
- Geology
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03.4 R14u
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- Archives Library
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